What are the benefits of soaking your feet in mugwort?

The feet are the center of the human body's meridians. The pathological changes of the internal organs can affect each other through the meridians, and by unblocking the meridians, the pathological changes of the internal organs can be treated. Soaking your feet is very beneficial to your health, and soaking your feet with wormwood leaves can make full use of the medicinal effects of wormwood leaves.

General practice of soaking feet with mugwort leaves :

Take 50 grams of moxa leaves (a handful is enough), put them in a pot and add water. After the water boils, boil for 10 minutes, turn off the heat, pour them into a basin, and wait for the water to cool naturally to a temperature that the feet can adapt to before soaking. Soak until the whole body is slightly sweaty, and then massage the Yongquan acupoint 50-100 times, then you can undress and rest.

1. Soaking your feet in mugwort water can effectively eliminate virtual fire and cold fire , and can treat oral ulcers, sore throat, periodontitis, gingivitis, otitis media and other recurrent diseases of the head and face that are related to virtual fire and cold fire. Whenever the above diseases occur, take a handful of mugwort leaves and boil them in water to soak your feet, or take a quarter of the clear moxa sticks made of pure mugwort leaves, tear them into pieces and put them in a foot bath bucket, soak them with boiling water for a while, and then soak your feet in some warm water after the mugwort leaves are soaked until your whole body sweats slightly, but not profusely, and then drink more warm water. Generally, soak your feet for several times in a row, that is, after 2-3 days. At the same time, drink more warm boiled water, do not eat cold food, and pay attention to rest. The discomforts in the head, face, and throat caused by virtual fire and cold fire will be significantly improved or disappear.

For patients with severe cold and dampness in the body, it is okay to soak feet in wormwood water once a week, but you must stop eating cold foods while soaking your feet in wormwood water. You can also drink a cup of ginger and red dates water while soaking your feet in wormwood water to remove the cold without draining the qi. As long as you don’t get angry obviously, soak your feet in warm water every day, and don’t soak your feet in wormwood water. But you must stop eating all cold foods and don’t let cold and dampness invade. Slowly, you will find that it is not easy to get angry even if you eat tonic foods, and your physical fitness is slowly improving.

2. Soaking your feet in moxa leaves can dispel cold . Soaking your feet in hot water every day can promote blood circulation and drive away dampness and coldness in the body. Moreover, moxa leaves can clear the twelve meridians and regulate yin and yang. If the meridians are unobstructed, the blood will flow smoothly. If the blood is healthy, the coldness in the body will naturally have nowhere to stay. (For the effect of moxa leaves to dispel cold, it is recommended that you use moxa stick fumigation, which will be more effective.)

Reminder : Mugwort is bitter, and bitter substances generally have a cooling effect, such as bitter melon and coptis root, so mugwort can reduce internal heat, especially liver fire. However, for people with weak constitution and insufficient qi and blood, it is recommended to drink a bowl of red dates and longan soup or tea before soaking feet to replenish the vital energy that may be lost in the body; and for people with yin deficiency who experience dizziness after soaking feet in mugwort, please eat half a catty to a catty of shrimps to replenish the body. After eating, you will feel refreshed and energetic, because after the evil fire in the body is driven out, the body's ability to absorb nutrients will be greatly enhanced.

Indications :

Moxibustion can regulate qi and blood, warm the meridians, expel cold and dampness, and stop cold pain. It is an important medicine for gynecology. It is used to treat cold pain in the abdomen, irregular menstruation, cold uterus and infertility, such as Ai Fu Nuan Gong Wan. Stir-fried charcoal can stop bleeding, and can be used to treat cold-induced menorrhagia, metrorrhagia, leukorrhea, and pregnancy-induced fetal leakage, such as Jiao Ai Tang. Mugwort leaves are pounded into fluff and made into moxa sticks and moxa cones. External moxibustion can dispel cold and stop pain, and warm qi and blood. Decoction can be used for external washing to treat wet sores, scabies, and remove dampness and stop itching.

What are the effects and functions of mugwort ?

1. Dispel cold and promote blood circulation : Moxa sticks are made from mugwort, a cylindrical object that is similar to cigarettes but several times larger than cigarettes. After lighting the moxa sticks and fumigating the corresponding acupoints, the moxa gas can enter the acupoints, reach the meridians through the acupoints, and then reach the body through the meridians, thereby playing a role in dispelling cold and promoting blood circulation.

2. To treat common warts and flat warts : Pick fresh moxa leaves, rub them until juice comes out, and rub them on the surface of the warts until the skin becomes slightly hot or slightly red, but do not break the skin. Do this twice a day.

3. Treatment of habitual miscarriage and infertility : Place the lit moxa stick on the abdomen near the navel, and let the smoke gradually enter the meridians in the body along the acupuncture points near the navel, regulating the meridians and qi and blood. At the same time, it also has a very good conditioning effect on the uterus and ovaries. Long-term persistence can also treat habitual miscarriage and infertility.

4. Treatment of scrotal eczema : Put 20 grams of fresh moxa leaves in a pot, add 500 ml of water, boil, soak absorbent cotton or a small towel in the hot medicinal liquid, apply it to the scrotum, or wash the scrotum, or fumigate and wash the scrotum while it is hot, and then apply a hot towel to the scrotum.

5. To treat cold type dysmenorrhea : take 30 grams of angelica, 15 grams of mugwort, 60 grams of brown sugar, boil in water and take 3 bowls of water, take it warm in 3 times.